Best Allotment Poems

Through the gate and into another world
Leaving my cares on the outside
Breathing in the air of my sanctuary
That’s where you’ll find me,
When life feels hard to bear.

Hands deep in the soil
The rich smell filling my mind
Feeling the cold earth between my fingers
That’s where you’ll find...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there, 


it terrorized my uncle's garden, 


blemishing the neatly ordered rows 


of cauliflower and cabbage, 


tomatoes, beans and beets. 





He would till from dawn to dusk, 


his angled back at odds with the 


concision of his spade; 


his way of giving thanks,...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there, 
it terrorized my uncle's garden, 
blemishing the neatly ordered rows 
of cauliflower and cabbage, 
tomatoes, beans and beets. 

He would till from dawn to dusk, 
his angled back at odds with the 
concision of his spade; 
his way of giving thanks,...

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Sedge grass, unwanted there,
it terrorized my uncle's garden,
blemishing the neatly ordered rows
of cauliflower and cabbage, 
tomatoes, beans and beets.
He would till from dawn to dusk,
his angled back at odds with the 
concision of his spade;
his way of giving thanks,
the Yorkshire Dales his place of worship.
...

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I have been Intrusted with knowledge! 
Completely incrusted with time,
Admirably holding onto wisdom,
Lost for thousands of generations. 
Set free like the busting of Hoover dam.
Overflowing rapids of life altering thoughts,
Of all the great thinkers,
Hoarded up condensing it’s
Own energy from all periods past.
Released to flush the...

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Mary, Mary how contrary
why does your garden grow?
with old tin cans and frying pans
and muddy boots all in a row.

Car piled high with spider's webs
Their spindly smiles, their lovely legs.
Come and say 'Good mourn ye all'
'We live here now and have a ball'

Inside your hut...

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NRIs (Non-reading incorrigibles) always start their public school careers not in August or September, but rather on November 16th, because November 15th is the day all schools get paid in full for the entire school year for each student who is enrolled that school whether...

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